NAGGW 2023 Youth Volunteers Program

Published: 22 Feb 2023

The NAGGW Youth Volunteers program is aimed at increasing the level of advocacy and accelerating income-generating activities, especially among the women and youth in the Great Green Wall Frontline communities in the 11 frontline states (Borno, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa). The NAGGW Youth Volunteers program intends to unlock, harness, and coordinate the vast potentials of the youth energy in the region into opportunities for achieving holistic nature-based solutions development and realization of the Great Green Wall vision in Nigeria.

The Program targets to create an amicable networking space for youths in different States and communities to be engaged in raising awareness, sensitization, and assume different responsibilities towards implementation of the vision of GGWI as well as enhance coherence in showcasing the Agency's activities and impact in the frontline communities

NAGGW will facilitate the implementation of the volunteers' activities with the provision of necessary resources to achieve set targets towards realising the Great Green Wall initiative and vision while capturing the essence of raising the livelihood index and alleviating poverty in targeted communities. Under the coordination of NAGGW, the youth volunteers will be engaged in different sets of tasks and roles meant to deliver actionable solutions in the Nigerian Drylands.

Interest Group Programmes:

• Income And Job Creation
• Capacity Development Of The Volunteers
• Alternative Source Of Energy
• Afforestation / Reforestation
• Public Enlightenment

NAGGW Youth Volunteers program

Application Deadline	Not Specified
Funding Type	Partially Funded
Country to study	Nigeria
Type	Entrepreneurs
Sponsor	National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW)
Gender	Men and Women

Benefits of NAGGW Youth Volunteers program

• The NAGGW Youth Volunteers program intends to unlock, harness, and coordinate the vast potentials of the youth energy in the region into opportunities for achieving holistic nature-based solutions development and realization of the Great Green Wall vision in Nigeria.
• The Program targets to create an amicable networking space for youths in different States and communities to be engaged in raising awareness, sensitization, and assume different responsibilities towards implementation of the vision of GGWI as well as enhance coherence in showcasing the Agency's activities and impact in the frontline communities

Requirements for NAGGW Youth Volunteers program

• Open to Nigerian youths

Application Deadline

Not Specified

How to Apply